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Anomaly Detection with Median Absolute Deviation

When you want to spot hosts, applications, containers, plant equipment, or sensors that are behaving differently from others, you can use the Median Absolute Deviation (MAD) algorithm to identify when a time series is “deviating from the pack”. In this tutorial, we’ll identify anomalous hosts using mad() — the Flux implementation of MAD — from a Third Party Flux Package called anaisdg/anomalydetection.

Data Will Keep Our Workplaces Healthier and More Productive - But There Must Be Trust and Transparency

In a post-pandemic world, we must use data in new ways. This in turn will require new discussions about, and practices creating, trust and transparency. The necessity of data and its benefits will be weighed against legitimate concerns of misuse of data.

Leverage advanced analytics to secure your endpoint devices

With the new normal adding several more challenges and variables to the security layer, how do you ensure your data is safeguarded without increasing the workload or the headcount of your security team? Using advanced analytics, in tandem with endpoint monitoring applications such as ManageEngine’s Mobile Device Manager Plus and Desktop Central, will help you better visualize and analyze your endpoint data, identify patterns, and establish correlations.

WayKonect Uses InfluxDB to Improve Fleet Management

The fleet management industry has been quick to embrace technology. They want to understand the current state of vehicles and drivers to improve operations and safety. Data privacy laws are especially important as fleet managers expand their reach into new territories. WayKonnect is using InfluxDB Enterprise to improve the fleet management industry.

Logstash and Maxmind - Not Just for GEOIP Anymore

The Logstash MaxMind filter enriches documents with GeoIP information from the open-source MaxMind database. But did you know that you can customize this filter to enrich documents with all kinds of other IP-related data? MaxMind uses its own database, which enables very fast searching based on IP address. Our experience is that this is the very best way to retrieve any type of IP-based information and store it upon ingestion without impacting performance.

Power your Puppet reports with PowerBI in 10 minutes

Every Puppet practitioner can appreciate the wealth of information stored inside PuppetDB. Although Puppet Enterprise console offers some insights into the data, we sometimes need rich dashboards, possibilities to correlate data about facts, nodes and reports and drill-down features. In short, we wish there were a way to unleash the full power of PuppetDB data to create situational awareness about our estate. This article will show that PowerBI is a very powerful companion to PuppetDB.